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thing is with shakespeare is that because of the language it is written it puts a lot of people off, both my kids loved shakespeare and thats not because they are particulary intelectuals or that I was into shakespeare but because they had a great teacher who took them beyond the classically written tales putting it in a language from the start that the kids would understand. Shakespeare wrote many kinds of stories, comedies , tradgedies, love stories… I have to say that it wasnt until later life I became ‘loosely’ interested in shakespeare, curiosity over the last 15 years took me to dabble in his works….. for those of you brave enough, i have cut and pasted a synopsis of Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor below, lol its not that far from Just chat lol which i think toy has eluded to innasmuch that will shakespeare would be as succesful a writer today as he was then xxx
Synopsis
The play anachronistically places Sir John Falstaff, who had previously appeared in Shakespeare’s plays about the medieval King Henry IV and set circa 1400, in the contemporary setting of the Elizabethan era, circa 1600.Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money. He decides, to obtain financial advantage, that he will court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. Falstaff decides to send the women identical love letters, and asks his servants – Pistol and Nym – to deliver them to the wives. When they refuse Falstaff sacks them and in revenge the men tell Ford and Page (the husbands) of Falstaff’s intentions. Page is not concerned but the jealous Ford persuades the Host of the Garter to introduce him to Falstaff as a ‘Master Brook’ so that he can find out Falstaff’s plans.
Meanwhile, three different men are trying to win the hand of Page’s daughter, Mistress Anne Page. Mistress Page would like her daughter to marry Doctor Caius, a French physician, whereas the girl’s father would like her to marry Master Slender. Anne herself is in love with Master Fenton, but Page had previously rejected Fenton as a suitor due to his having squandered his considerable fortune on high-class living. Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson, tries to enlist the help of Mistress Quickly (servant to Doctor Caius) in wooing Anne for Slender, but the doctor discovers this and challenges Evans to a duel. The Host of the Garter prevents this duel by telling both men a different meeting place, causing much amusement for himself, Justice Shallow, Page and others. Evans and Caius decide to work together to be revenged on the Host.
When the women receive the letters, each goes to tell the other and they quickly find that the letters are almost identical. The “merry wives” are not interested in the aging, overweight Falstaff as a suitor; however, for the sake of their own amusement and to gain revenge for his indecent assumptions towards them both, they pretend to respond to his advances.
This all results in great embarrassment for Falstaff. ‘Brook’ says he is in love with Mistress Ford but cannot woo her as she is too virtuous. He offers to pay Falstaff to court her, saying that once she has lost her honour he will be able to tempt her himself. Falstaff cannot believe his luck, and tells ‘Brook’ he has already arranged to meet Mistress Ford while her husband is out. Falstaff leaves to keep his appointment and Ford soliloquies that he is right to suspect his wife and that the trusting Page is a fool.
When Falstaff arrives to meet Mistress Ford, the merry wives trick him into hiding in a laundry basket (“buck basket”) full of filthy, smelly clothes awaiting laundering. When the jealous Ford returns to try and catch his wife with the knight, the wives have the basket taken away and the contents (including Falstaff) dumped into the river. Although this affects Falstaff’s pride, his ego is surprisingly resilient. He is convinced that the wives are just “playing hard to get” with him, so he continues his pursuit of sexual advancement, with its attendant capital and opportunities for blackmail.
Again Falstaff goes to meet the women but Mistress Page comes back and warns Mistress Ford of her husband’s approach again. They try to think of ways to hide him other than the laundry basket which he refuses to get into again. They trick him again, this time into disguising himself as Mistress Ford’s maid’s fat aunt, the fat woman of Brentford. Ford tries once again to catch his wife with the knight but ends up beating the “old woman,” whom he despises, and throwing her out of his house. Black and blue, Falstaff laments his bad luck.
Eventually the wives tell their husbands about the series of jokes they have played on Falstaff, and together they devise one last trick which ends up with the Knight being humiliated in front of the whole town. They tell Falstaff to dress as “Herne, the Hunter” and meet them by an old oak tree in Windsor Forest (now part of Windsor Great Park). They then dress several of the local children, including Anne and William Page, as fairies and get them to pinch and burn Falstaff to punish him. Page plots to dress Anne in white and tells Slender to steal her away and marry her during the revels. Mistress Page and Doctor Caius arrange to do the same, but they arrange Anne shall be dressed in green. Anne tells Fenton this, and he and the Host arrange for Anne and Fenton to be married instead.
The wives meet Falstaff, and almost immediately the “fairies” attack. Slender, Caius, and Fenton steal away their brides-to-be during the chaos, and the rest of the characters reveal their true identities to Falstaff.
Although he is embarrassed, Falstaff takes the joke surprisingly well, as he sees it was what he deserved. Ford says he must pay back the 20 pounds ‘Brook’ gave him and takes the Knight’s horses as recompense. Slender suddenly appears and says he has been deceived – the ‘girl’ he took away to marry was not Anne but a young boy. Caius arrives with similar news – however, he has actually married his boy! Fenton and Anne arrive and admit that they love each other and have been married. Fenton chides the parents for trying to force Anne to marry men she did not love and the parents accept the marriage and congratulate the young pair. Eventually they all leave together and Mistress Page even invites Falstaff to come with them: “let us every one go home, and laugh at this sport o’er by a country fire; Sir John and all”.
ok thats me for now , work tommorow ugh after 2 weeks off , but funny nuff wil be nice to get some sort of routine back in my life, ive had a great 2 weeks off work and a break in llandudno which although some of it was duty there was some pleasure too lol xxxxxxxx so , to all of you , nanite god bless and of course the words of dave allen, may your god go with you xxxxxxxxxxxx nanu nanu thunderbirds are go an all that lol xxxxxxxxxx
@toybulldog wrote:
@sharongooner wrote:
Judge sharongooner decrees cleverness should be banned from all message board posts on Sundays.
damn now I gotta be stoopid 7 days a week………
well I thought it was rather good of Shakespeare to namecheck such well-known JC posters.
ok sorry to Sharon for suggesting that she was an old fuddy-duddy bewhiskered judge (although it was an easy mistake to make), to ForgetMeNot who may not be a man of the cloth at all; to Pete who is not a distinguished scientist, to Cath who has never to my knowledge kept a house of ill-repute. And of course to Esme who does not make merry with Greek officers in orchards………..I think.
and I come up smelling of roses, well I did until that last post anyway.
Poor DOA, lucky sunny
x
i fink that shakespeare is a class geezer!! innit!! lol x
@toybulldog wrote:
Policemen who for several nights had kept watch on a well known plumbers house in Brighton had brought to light a very serious state of affairs, prosecuting counsel told magistrates at an East London court.
The evidence, he said, left no doubt that the house was in every sense of the word disorderly and in desperate need of a stop co/ck.
A particular disquieting feature was that fifi trixibell a particularly saucy french lady who always seemed to dress in pink and was proprietress of the house in question and now in the dock, seemed to make a speciality of providing serving bulldogs ( so called because of their hairy appearance) of the toy variety, with what he could only describe as ‘wine, women and song’.
WELL-KNOWN NAMES
Several officers who had not reported for duty at the proper time were later found to have been frequenting this particular establishment and not only cavorting with the wine, woman and song , but also learning some very dodgy pracitices with some copper piping.‘I would take this opportunity’, said counsel, ‘to warn the court that attempts are likely to be made by the defendant to suggest that the place was under distinguished patronage, and was indeed a training school for plumbers, but , It would, I submit, be grossly unfair if these people were allowed to flood the market the names of people well known in London and Brighton Society.’
After some discussion the court gave leave for a young man whose name had been mentioned in connection with the case to be referred to as ‘Mr D’
CALLED HIM ‘CHEATER’
Fifi trixabell said that one of the officers referred to had, in fact, been her plumber for many years.
She admitted that on one occasion she had tried to have him arrested for overcharging for a washer as well as for money owing to her, but stated that this had been due to a misunderstanding and that this had been settled amicably with the offer of gold plated taps on her fawcett.
Questioned about her alleged association with a Captain Toy, Miss S. Unny of the same address agreed that he had on several occasions attempted to interfere with her Plumbing, but she had witnesses to testify that she had called out to others in the room asking them ‘for God’s sake’ to ‘flush him down the loo;.
She had also told the captain to his face that he was, in her opinion, ‘an abominable plumber’.
The case was adjourned.moments in time that turn into hours
will never be taken, they will remain ours
the stuff that this life turns into warm memories,
whether its silence , or chat , or warm cups of teas
sat together with those moments ,before the parting of the ways,
are yours, and mine,
for now and always. xxPeot!!!!!!!!!!!! mwahhhhhhhhhhh happy burfday, *wibbles n smiles* xxxxx
@toybulldog wrote:
‘These disgusting allegations against a distinguished chat forum host was counsel’s description of a just chat newsletter report which was the subject of a libel action by uk pilot.
‘Poison pens and vulgar tittle-tattle’, continued Judge sharongooner, ‘have been responsible for all this talk of “Spinnekar towers”, and this so-called “land of Just chat”.‘
He was amazed, he said, that any newsletter had dared to give such rumours currency.
NIGHTMARE STUFF
The so-called ‘experiments’, involving a ‘monster’ and the young daughter of regular chat poster Professor Pete, had been perfectly normal scientific procedure. Moreover the daughter (who had been lured by the hoff into his car with some very bad singing) was now, he understood, happily married, and had been deeply distressed by the publication of these rumours, which might well be though to be such stuff as post counts are made of.She vaguely remembered a young man whom her father addressed as Sgt Pepper, but denied that he had ‘meant’ anything to her. She had considered him ‘effeminate’.
